Cooking and Baking: Finding Ingredient Substitutes

Missing a few ingredients for that luscious-sounding recipe? Use this list of ingredient substitutions for easy cooking tonight.

Even with the help of traditional or online cooking classes, network cooking shows, popular cookbooks or grandma herself, there is still something that can stand in the way of putting a fantastic meal on the table or a yummy cake in the oven: lacking one or more of a recipe’s key ingredients.

Cooking or baking can be daunting enough, without the hassles of fretting over key ingredients which may be missing from the cupboards. Yet rather than worry about missing the exact mark of a recipe, relish the creativity that can come with some simple ingredient substitutions.

Part of learning to cook is also learning to substitute. Below are lists of ingredient substitutions which are sure to make cooking and baking more pleasant.